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Title page from Neri's Art of Glass
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm

Black and white photograph reproducing the title page from a translated edition (1662) of Antonio Neri's The Art of Glass, Wherin are shown the wayes to make and colour glass, pastes, enamels, lakes and other curiosities. Written in Italian by Antonio Neri and translated into English with some observations on the author. Whereunto is added an account of the Glass Drops, made by the Royal Society, meeting at Gresham College. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.


2007.946

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